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Hi akla,

I think this is might help. Found in 1976 Betty Crocker Cookbook copyright 1969, pg 163 listed All Time Favorites as a footnote to Old Fashioned Chocolate Fudge.

Old Fashioned Chocolate Fudge

2 cups sugar

2/3 cup milk

2 oz unsweetened choc or 1/3 cup cocoa

2 tablespoons corn syrup

1/4 t salt

2 tablespoons butter or marg

1 t vanilla

1/2 cup coarsely chopped nuts if desired

Butter loaf pan 9x5x3 inche Combine sugar milk choc corn syrup and salt in 2 quart saucepan. Cook over med heat stirring constantly until choc is melted and sugar is dissolved. Cook stirring occasionally to 234 degrees on candy therm ( or until small amount of mixture droppped into very cold water forms a soft ball which flattens when removed from water)

Remove from heat add butter Cool mixture to 120 without stirring (bottom of pan will be lukewarm) Add vanilla beat vigourously and continuously 5 to 10 min with wooden spoon until candy is thick and no longer glossy. ( mixture will hold its shape when dropped from spoon) Quickly stir in nuts Spread mixture evenly in buttered pan Cool until firm cut into squares.   VARIATION   PENUCHE  :  SUBSTITUTE 1 CUP BROWN SUGAR (packed) FOR 1CUP OF THE GRANULATED SUGAR AND OMIT CHOCOLATE.   GOOD LUCK !!

Penuche  1956 BC cookbook  pg 183

Combine in saucepan : 2 cups brown sugar,packed

                                 1 cup sugar  1 cup cream  2Tbls. light corn syrup  1/4 teas. salt

Stir over med. heat to dissolve sugar.cook to 234°or until a little dropped in cold watr forms a soft ball. Stir occasionally . Remove from heat.

  Add: 2 Tbls. butter  Let stand without stirring  until bottom of pan is lukewarm (120°).

 Add: 1 tsp. vanilla . Beat until creamy . Mix in : 1/2 cup of chopped nuts.

Pour into greased 8 or 9" square pan . Cut into squares. Amount 36 1 1/2" pieces.